| Geschreven door Family Practice Management | | A bill introduced by Sen. John Rockefeller, D-W.Va., that would require physicians to undergo mandatory education as a condition for prescribing certain drugs, such as opioids, has triggered a letter protesting the language in the bill and outlining the extensive education family physicians undergo that makes them fully qualified to prescribe... | woensdag 05 oktober 2011 00:40 |
| Geschreven door Family Practice Management | | As part of a targeted grassroots effort to convince the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, also known as the "supercommittee," to repeal the sustainable growth rate, or SGR, formula as part of its final legislation, the Academy has sent a Speak Out Alert to its key contact members urging them to tell their House members to sign a "Dear... | woensdag 05 oktober 2011 00:35 |
| Geschreven door Global Family Doctor (Wonca) | We need to talk about HPV vaccination - seriously Tuesday 4th October 2011 Should we vaccinate girls against HPV? Michele Bachmann's blundering aside, there is no clear answer. Whenever a new medical intervention comes onto the scene, doctors have hard choices to make. Do we really know enough about its potential benefits and risks to recommend... | | Laatst aangepast: maandag 16 januari 2012 11:46 | dinsdag 04 oktober 2011 07:00 |
| Geschreven door Global Family Doctor (Wonca) | | Bali Rabies situation - Sept
Tuesday 4th October 2011In the last three months Rabies has been identified in dogs in the island's capital, Denpasar, and the neighbouring Gianyar. The number of infected villages continues to rise and is currently recorded as 282. There were 29 human deaths in 2008-2009 86 last year and so far 18 have died this... | dinsdag 04 oktober 2011 07:00 |
| Geschreven door Global Family Doctor (Wonca) | | 5th Geneva Conference on Person-Centered Medicine
Tuesday 4th October 2011We invite you to participate in the 5th Geneva conference on Person-Centered Medicine. Chronic Diseases: Person- and People-centered Perspectives. Core Conference on April 30 - May 2, 2012. Pre-Conference Workmeetings on April 28 and April 29, 2012. L` Auditoire Marcel... | dinsdag 04 oktober 2011 07:00 |
| Geschreven door Family Practice Management | | During a recent noontime conference with his residents, family physician Timothy Heilmann, M.D., asked them, "Who here thinks they're doing a good job managing a diabetic patient?" All of the residents' hands shot up. But Heilmann, associate director of the family medicine residency at Williamsport Regional Medical Center in Williamsport, Pa., had... | vrijdag 30 september 2011 23:10 |
| Geschreven door Family Practice Management | | First, Alana McGuinness got the attention of physicians with her artwork. Now, she's done it again with her generosity. The 10-year-old from Bristol, R.I., was named the winner of the Tar Wars National Poster Contest July 12 in Washington, D.C., during the annual Tar Wars National Conference, which is the culmination of the AAFP's school-based... | vrijdag 30 september 2011 23:00 |
| Geschreven door Global Family Doctor (Wonca) | | WONCA 2012 Asia Pacific Regional Conference in Jeju, Korea
Friday 30th September 2011The Wonca Jeju 2012 Organizing Committee cordially invites you to participate as an organizer or speaker in one of the organized sessions: symposia, lectures, seminars and workshops. We would also like to ask for abstracts to be submitted by Dec 30, 2011. For... | vrijdag 30 september 2011 07:00 |
| Geschreven door Family Practice Management | | The AAFP has long urged public and private payers to adopt a blended payment model that rewards primary care physicians for coordinating and managing patient care. Now, CMS and its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, or CMMI, have joined the movement with the launch of a new initiative -- the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative. The... | donderdag 29 september 2011 01:35 |
| Geschreven door Family Practice Management | | This roundup includes the following news briefs: HHS Releases Final Rule on Medicaid Recovery Audit Program; Saw Palmetto Ineffective Against BPH-associated Urinary Symptoms; Survey Results: Medical Practices Cut Expenditures 2.2 Percent in 2010; AHRQ Seeks Medical Office Submissions for Patient Safety Culture Database; and Campaign Encourages... | woensdag 28 september 2011 23:40 |
| Geschreven door Family Practice Management | | "If physicians aren't certain whether or not they were successful electronic prescribers (e-prescribers) in 2011, the answer may be coming on Jan. 1 when the penalty phase of Medicare's e-prescribing incentive program kicks in," Cynthia Hughes, C.P.C., an AAFP coding and compliance specialist, recently told . According to Hughes, a new remittance... | woensdag 28 september 2011 23:20 |
| Geschreven door Family Practice Management | | Practice administrator Glenn Jennings, M.B.A., lost both his parents to smoking-related illnesses and his father-in-law to lung cancer, so he and his wife, family physician Carrie Burns, M.D., already were advocates for nonsmoking well before their Baytown, Texas, practice participated in the AAFP's Office Champions Tobacco Cessation Pilot... | woensdag 28 september 2011 00:05 |
| Geschreven door Global Family Doctor (Wonca) | | Gamers help crack AIDS protein puzzle
Tuesday 27th September 2011Players of an online video game called Foldit have helped researchers discover the structure of an protein-cutting enzyme produced by an AIDS-like virus found in monkeys. Scientists have struggled with the problem for a decade, but the gamers helped crack it in just three weeks.... | dinsdag 27 september 2011 07:00 |
| Geschreven door Global Family Doctor (Wonca) | | Update on Poliomyelitis outbreaks - East Africa, China and Pakistan
Tuesday 27th September 2011Kenyan health officials are on high alert after 3 cases of infection by Polio Virus Type 1 in western Kenya's Nyanza province. The strain is similar to one found in Uganda's Bugiri District in 2010 and which has also been found to circulate in Sudan... | dinsdag 27 september 2011 07:00 |
| Geschreven door Global Family Doctor (Wonca) | | Confirmed international spread of wild poliovirus from Pakistan
Tuesday 27th September 2011Wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) genetically linked to a virus currently circulating in Pakistan has been isolated in China. Pakistan is affected by nationwide transmission of WPV1, and is the location of the only wild poliovirus type 3 (WPV3) case in Asia... | dinsdag 27 september 2011 07:00 |
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